Is this the first casualty of the Online Safety Act? An online cycling community web forum with over 60K users shutting down - as they say dealing with the compliance requirements of the act is too much - https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/ #OSA #censorship
As I’m not a subject of the British Empire, I went and read what that law does and wow, is that a flaming pile of shit.
They basically said anyone who has a thing online that allows “user to user” communications is now subject to all sorts of bullshit, which includes social media companies, but also catches your blog because it has a comment section because they didn’t even remotely try to carve out an exception for an individual doing a thing.
Can’t imagine this’ll do anything other than make people who can bail on the UK to do so (hosting is pretty fungible, and it’s not like you can’t host elsewhere that’s still close enough to the UK to be fine) and screw with UK citizens and residents access to and ability to provide online shit.
As I’m not a subject of the British Empire, I went and read what that law does and wow, is that a flaming pile of shit.
They basically said anyone who has a thing online that allows “user to user” communications is now subject to all sorts of bullshit, which includes social media companies, but also catches your blog because it has a comment section because they didn’t even remotely try to carve out an exception for an individual doing a thing.
Can’t imagine this’ll do anything other than make people who can bail on the UK to do so (hosting is pretty fungible, and it’s not like you can’t host elsewhere that’s still close enough to the UK to be fine) and screw with UK citizens and residents access to and ability to provide online shit.
Although, the penalty for non-compliance is 10% of global turnover which would amount to close to £0 for most.